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by dolzenko 3357 days ago
Any idea on what exactly VS Code did better to achieve that performance compared with Atom?
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Plugins don't run on the UI thread IIRC
You do. They also have some really smart people(I'm assuming more than one, but at least one has posted on HN about editor optimizations they have made) who seem to pull out all the stops on monaco to produce a very fast "smart" text editor.

Lots of good architecture decisions made. The marriage with TypeScript has also worked out well; it's on fire and coffee is smouldering. This helps with getting people to jump in and contribute.